Now I'm looking in the right place for my files, I'm running into a couple of strange behaviors of revCopyFolder that I'd like to share. This all with OS X 10.6.8/LC 5.0.
By way of background, I am dealing with getting my SQLiteAdmin app ready for the Apple Store, part of which entails changing the location of its prefs file (apparently, ~/Library/Preferences is not an appropriate folder for Preferences files?) and I'm writing startup code that takes care of moving it (and a couple of other files) so existing users don't lose their Prefs. My prefs file is stored as a single string created with arrayEncode(). It appears that if there is a folder in the revCopyFolder destination with the same name as the source folder, revCopyFolder does not do the copy but still returns OK in it. It seems like It should either overwrite the folder (perhaps with a confirming prompt) or return an error of some sort in it. Once I figured that out, I ran into a problem accessing the copied Prefs file. The code I've been using for months to read it is: open file tPath for read read from file tPath until EOF put arrayDecode(it) into tPrefs When I use that code to access the copied prefs file, I get a run time error on the arrayDecode line "arrayDecode: failure". I've seen that in the past when the string to be decoded is not in arrayEncode format. Clutching at straws, I changed the first line of the code to "open file tPath for binary read" and all works fine again. I'm OK with that but clearly revCopyFolder changed some characteristic of the file that made it necessary to access it as a binary file. The new or original code still works on the old Prefs file. Neither of these issues is a big deal once you know about them, but seems like it would be good if the dictionary was more forthcoming about stuff like that. I should probably add a comment to the revCopyFolder entry. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
